Re: Web Content Filtering

["Tevlin, Dave" <dtevlin () VISI ORG>]

At the recent NERCOMP conference this came up in a group discussion and at
one school they had filtering in place that served a Warning page, not a
block page, with a button to proceed. This tied into their education
campaign on being secure online and help mitigate accidental browsing to
malware and other infected domain sites.

Dave Tevlin
Georgetown Visitation Prep School

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Carroll, Tim <Carrolltd () roanestate edu>
wrote:

>  Don,
>
>
>
> Here at Roane State, we filter known Child Porn sites and gambling sites.
> Both of these are prohibited by State and Federal laws.  We rate limit file
> sharing sites… with the exception of sites with known malware threats, all
> others are open but monitored.
>
>
>
> Academic Freedom, censorship and academic research are the main reasons
> cited by our faculty and Library staff.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Tim
>
> Tim Carroll
>
> Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer
>
> Information Technology
>
> Roane State Community College
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Donald Welch
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:09 PM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Web Content Filtering
>
>
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I'm the new CISO for the University of Michigan.  I look forward to
> meeting you and working with you.  One of my first issues is web content
> filtering.
>
>
>
> I've been asked whether any other higher education institutions implement
> web content filtering and if so what groups to you filter for and what
> kinds of content.  If you wish, I'd also welcome your opinion on how well
> it works.
>
>
>
> This has started with our health system and my guess is that would be our
> focus if we went forward.  However, one of our Trustees has been
> questioning why we don't filter across the University.  I have to go to an
> initial meeting Friday afternoon, so any info you can give me before then
> would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Don
>
>
>
> Donald J. Welch, Ph.D.
>
> Chief Information Security Officer
>
> University of Michigan
>
> 734-615-0334
>
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